Carrying attachments for umbrellas

Abstract

In order to permit a flexible carrying handle to be more easily fitted intond removed from a known securing eyelet in an umbrella handle, a permanently open threading slot running the length of the eyelet is provided. The slot is narrower than the eyelet. The carrying handle can be squeezed along the slot into the eyelet, where the carrying handle regains its normal shape and thus will not unintentionally slip back out of the eyelet.

Having described in detail the preferred embodiments, by way of description and not limitation, what is desired to claim and protect by Letters Patent is: 
     
       1. In an umbrella frame including an elongated stick having a longitudinal axis and first and second ends, a handle on said first end and a crown on said second end, at least one of said handle or crown having an eyelet extending transversely through opposite sides of an intermediate portion of said at least one of said handle or crown and at a right angle to the longitudinal axis of said stick, a flexible and manually-and-tensionally deformable carrying member threaded through said eyelet and being slidable in said eyelet and substantially filling the cross section of said eyelet when said crarying member is relaxes and in a non-tensionally-deformed condition, said at least one of said handle or crown through which said eyelet extends having a combination threading-slot-and-clamping channel comprising a pair of spaced wall portions each having a respective inner, abrupt transverse edge originating at said eyelet and extending parallel the entire extent of said eyelet, said walls extending radially from said eyelet the entire length of said eyelet and continuing radially into the outer surface of said at least one of said handle or crown and forming a transverse open slot at the outer surface of said at least one of said handle or crown, said abrupt transverse inner edges of said walls being spaced a wisth substantially less than a cross section of said eyelet and the cross section of said carrying member in its relaxed condition but permitting passage of said carrying member when the carrying member is tensionally deformed to a reduced cross section for permitting the deformed carrying member to be drawn manually past said abrupt inner edges, along the spaced walls, and through the slot in the outer surface of said/one of said handle or crown and away from the stick of said umbrella frame. 
     
     
       2. The structure as claimed in claim 1 in which said pair of walls diverge from the abrupt inner edges to the outer surface of said at least one of said handle or crown. 
     
     
       3. The structure as claimed in claim 2 in which the walls and outer surface of said at least one of said handle or crown intersect at a relieved edge extending across the outer surface of said slot. 
     
     
       4. The structure as claimed in claim 1 in which said eyelet includes an enlarged recess at one end thereof and adjacent the outer surface of sadi at least one of said handle or crown, said carrying member including an abutment portion received within said enlarged recess. 
     
     
       5. The structure as claimed in claim 1 in which said at lesat one of said handle or said crown comprises said handle, said handle having a pair of said eyelets and combination threading-slot-and-clamping channels as defined, said carrying member having an excess length stored in wrapped relation around said handle between said pair of eyelets. 
     
     
       6. The structure as claimed in claim 5 in which the combination threading-slot-and-clamping channels of said pair of eyelets open in opposite direction on said handle. 
     
     
       7. The structure as claimed in claim 1 in which each of said handle and said crown include one of said eyelets and combination threading-slots-and clamping channels as defined, said carrying member being terminally connected, at opposite ends, in one of the respective eyelets in said crown and handle and being manually removable from said eyelets through the respective combination threading-slot-and-clamping channel and extending from crown to handle along said stick whereby said carrying member and umbrella frame can be carried slung over a user's shoulder. 
     
     
       8. The structure as claimed in claim 1 in which said combination threading-slot-and-clamping channel opens from said at least one of said handle or crown longitudinally away from the stick of said frame. 
     
     
       9. The structure of claim 1 in which said combination threading-slot-and-clamping channel of said at least one of said handle or crown opens laterally of the longitudinally axis of said stick.